21 Bible Verses about Short Time For Action

Stay with him until your brother's anger cools down.

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until his rage has passed by.

Now for a little time grace (favour) has come to us from Jehovah our God, to let a small band of us go free and to give us a nail in his holy place. Our God gives light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

The number of people is great, and it is a time of much rain; it is not possible for us to go on waiting outside. This is not a thing that may be done in one day or even two: for our sin in this business is great.

And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said: What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they make themselves strong? Will they make offerings? Will they get the work done in a day? Will they make the stones that have been burned come again out of the dust?

The Light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame. It will burn and consume his thorns and his briers in a single day!

So Jehovah will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed (rush) in one day.

In time of security he will come even upon the richest places of the province. He will do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers. He will scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance. He will devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.

Then one will stand up in his place who will send an oppressor (tax collecter) to pass through the glory of the kingdom. However, he will be destroyed within a few days, neither in anger, nor in battle.

He led him up to a high place and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

What is this that he says: A little while? We do not know what he says.

John baptized with water; but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit in a few days, He said.

He is bringing the matter to an end, and cutting it short in righteousness. Jehovah will make an accounting on the earth. (Isaiah 10:22)

For though I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it (for I see that that letter made you sorry, though but for a season),

We did not yield to them for a moment or an hour! That way the truth of the good news (the whole body of Christian teachings) might continue with you.

Therefore her plagues (literal and figurative) will overtake her in one day, death and mourning and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire, for mighty is Jehovah God who judges her. (Jeremiah 50:34; 51:58)

They will stand at a distance for fear of her torment, and say: 'Woe, woe to the great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.'

In one hour these great riches came to nothing.' Every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far off,

They threw dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying: 'Woe, woe to the great city. All that had ships in the sea became rich by her wealth. In one hour she was made desolate.'

They disciplined us for a few days for their own pleasure. He disciplines for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

There are seven kings: five have fallen, and one is, and the other has not yet come. When he comes he must remain a short while.